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Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Junjiao Tian , Lavisha Aggarwal , Andrea Colaco , Zsolt Kira , Mar Gonzalez-Franco

Accurate object segmentation is a crucial task in the context of robotic manipulation. However, creating sufficient annotated training data for neural networks is particularly time consuming and often requires manual labeling. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Wout Boerdijk , Martin Sundermeyer , Maximilian Durner , Rudolph Triebel

We propose an end-to-end learning framework for segmenting generic objects in both images and videos. Given a novel image or video, our approach produces a pixel-level mask for all "object-like" regions---even for object categories never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Bo Xiong , Suyog Dutt Jain , Kristen Grauman

We study image segmentation from an information-theoretic perspective, proposing a novel adversarial method that performs unsupervised segmentation by partitioning images into maximally independent sets. More specifically, we group image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Pedro Savarese , Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Michael Maire , Greg Shakhnarovich , David McAllester

Building a large image dataset with high-quality object masks for semantic segmentation is costly and time consuming. In this paper, we introduce a principled semi-supervised framework that only uses a small set of fully supervised images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Mostafa S. Ibrahim , Arash Vahdat , Mani Ranjbar , William G. Macready

Our paper introduces a novel two-stage self-supervised approach for detecting co-occurring salient objects (CoSOD) in image groups without requiring segmentation annotations. Unlike existing unsupervised methods that rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Souradeep Chakraborty , Dimitris Samaras

While supervised object detection methods achieve impressive accuracy, they generalize poorly to images whose appearance significantly differs from the data they have been trained on. To address this in scenarios where annotating data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Isinsu Katircioglu , Helge Rhodin , Victor Constantin , Jörg Spörri , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

Existing deep learning based unsupervised video object segmentation methods still rely on ground-truth segmentation masks to train. Unsupervised in this context only means that no annotated frames are used during inference. As obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Sahir Shrestha , Mohammad Ali Armin , Hongdong Li , Nick Barnes

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing computer vision challenges that involve decomposing an image into semantically-meaningful segments without any labeled data. These tasks are particularly interesting in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Christian Rupprecht , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Semantic segmentation is a key computer vision task that has been actively researched for decades. In recent years, supervised methods have reached unprecedented accuracy, however they require many pixel-level annotations for every new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Nir Zabari , Yedid Hoshen

Deep learning usually achieves the best results with complete supervision. In the case of semantic segmentation, this means that large amounts of pixelwise annotations are required to learn accurate models. In this paper, we show that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yi Zhu , Zhongyue Zhang , Chongruo Wu , Zhi Zhang , Tong He , Hang Zhang , R. Manmatha , Mu Li , Alexander Smola

Just like other few-shot learning problems, few-shot segmentation aims to minimize the need for manual annotation, which is particularly costly in segmentation tasks. Even though the few-shot setting reduces this cost for novel test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Mustafa Sercan Amac , Ahmet Sencan , Orhun Bugra Baran , Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Semantic Segmentation is one of the most challenging vision tasks, usually requiring large amounts of training data with expensive pixel level annotations. With the success of foundation models and especially vision-language models, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Soroush Seifi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Fabien Despinoy , Rahaf Aljundi

Unsupervised panoptic segmentation aims to partition an image into semantically meaningful regions and distinct object instances without training on manually annotated data. In contrast to prior work on unsupervised panoptic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Nikita Araslanov , Daniel Cremers , Christian Rupprecht , Stefan Roth

We introduce a novel framework to build a model that can learn how to segment objects from a collection of images without any human annotation. Our method builds on the observation that the location of object segments can be perturbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Adam Bielski , Paolo Favaro

As a computer vision task, automatic object segmentation remains challenging in specialized image domains without massive labeled data, such as synthetic aperture sonar images, remote sensing, biomedical imaging, etc. In any domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hassan Baker , Matthew S. Emigh , Austin J. Brockmeier

Learning object segmentation in image and video datasets without human supervision is a challenging problem. Humans easily identify moving salient objects in videos using the gestalt principle of common fate, which suggests that what moves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Silky Singh , Shripad Deshmukh , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Despite their irresistible success, deep learning algorithms still heavily rely on annotated data. On the other hand, unsupervised settings pose many challenges, especially about determining the right inductive bias in diverse scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Beril Besbinar , Pascal Frossard

Localizing objects in an unsupervised manner poses significant challenges due to the absence of key visual information such as the appearance, type and number of objects, as well as the lack of labeled object classes typically available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hasib Zunair , A. Ben Hamza

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao